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THE TREE DOCTOR 



have not a tenth of those faithful little workers that we need to 

 convey the pollen grains to the particular organs of the flower 

 in such a limited time as we frequently have between showers 

 at the time when trees and vines are in bloom. Talk of bugs 

 and insects destroying trees ! Is there any class of insects, or 

 all combined, that have done as much mischief as man himself? 

 He has destroyed the forests and dried up the streams ; he has 

 butchered the buffalo and nearly all the "game," not sparing the 

 song birds, and even robbed and killed his little innocent friends 

 the Bees. Yet this destroyer is to be the restorer and the in- 

 strument of universal redemption. The great crime of all 

 crimes of humanity is selfishness. But the time is now at 

 hand when man will learn that happiness consists not in living 

 for self, but to live and plant for those who follow. 



ROSE GROWING. 



No rose, perhaps, has ever so "agreeably surprised" the peo- 

 ple as has the "Crimson Rambler." Years ago I learned to "go 



Photo 124, A Sturdy Rambler. 



